December, 1916. 



421 



American l^ee Journal 



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that only a few years ago goldens did 

 not exist at all, and being a new prod- 

 uct the type is not well fixed. As a re- 

 sult, while it is true of any variety of 

 bees that in it may be found good, bad, 

 and indifferent specimens, it might be 

 expected to be especially true of gold- 

 ens. So when one woman says her 

 goldens are good and another says 

 hers are poor, it may be that the colo- 

 nies of one may have little resemblance 

 to the colonies of the other except in 

 the matter of color. 



Another reason for the difference in 

 valuation may come from a diflference 

 in the colonies with which the goldens 

 are compared. Suppose Mrs. A has an 

 apiary of bees that are excellent in 

 every way, and that Mrs. B's bees are 

 the poorest ever, and that each of these 

 women buys a colony of goldens which 

 are of medium quality and just alike. 

 Neither of them having had experience 

 with bees except with the kind already 

 on hand, it is quite natural that Mrs. A 

 should pronounce the goldens inferior, 

 and that Mrs. B should pronounce 

 them superior. "Let each man be 

 fully assured in his own mind." 



Still another reason for a difference 

 of opinion lies in the object one has in 

 keeping bees. One keeps bees mainly 

 for profit, and if he finds the leather- 

 colored kind will produce more honey 

 than any other, he will have none of the 

 goldens. Another keeps bees chiefly 

 as a pastime, and to him the beauty of 

 the goldens is so great that he cares 

 little whether they store more or less 

 than others. And to one with an eye 

 for the beautiful it is a matter of real 

 pleasure to work with the golden 



beauties. 



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Orange Marmalade With Honey 



To every quart of juice and pulp of 

 seedless oranges allow two pounds of 

 honey and two pounds of orange rind. 

 Peel the oranges and boil the rind in 

 water to cover until tender. Then cut 

 into strips with a sharp knife or scis- 

 sors. Take away the white parts from 

 the juice and pulp, and put it, with the 

 honey and the cooked strips of rind, 

 into a preserving-kettle. Boil until it 

 is of the proper consistency. — 77ic 

 Christian Endeavor ll^orld. 



it is still better to have the brood- 

 chamber so crowded with honey in the 

 fall that no feeding in spring is neces- 

 sary. 



A colony with a good queen, if there 

 is abundance of honey in the brood- 

 chamber in the spring, will have all the 

 brood the bees can cover, so nothing 

 would be gained by stimulative feeding. 

 Indeed it might do harm, for if small 

 portions of food be given every day or 

 every other day, and the weather is 

 adverse, it may cause the bees to fly 

 out and be lost. 



There are, however, some localities 

 where stimulative feeding becomes nec- 

 essary; a time of considerable duration 

 occurring when there is a cessation of 

 all honeyflow for so long a time that 

 the queen stops laying. If this dearth 

 is only for a few days, and the hive 

 contains plenty of stores, the queen 

 will go right on laying, but if the 

 dearth continues long enough, she will 

 stop laying, and then the beekeeper 

 must try his hand at imitating a nat- 

 ural flow of nectar. 



In the fall we have never done any- 

 thing in the way of stimulation. A 

 good queen needs nothing of the kind, 

 and played-out queens should not be 

 tolerated. 



Stimulation in Spring and Fall 



In 1908, when you got 151 sections 

 per colony, did you stimulate your bees 

 to rear brood, or were they strong 

 enough? Do you stimulate in the fall, 

 to increase the number of bees if they 

 have plenty of honey and pollen ? 



[Mrs.] F. B. Overstreet. 



Uvalde, Tex. 



We did no stimulating in 1908, nor 

 in a later year when our bees estab- 

 lished the world's record for as many 

 as 72 colonies by yielding an average 

 of 266 sections, or 244 pounds, per col- 

 ony. In the spring we see to it that 

 each colony has not only plenty of 

 stores, but abundance. If any colony 

 lacks in this respect, it is given honey 

 in sealed combs that have been saved 

 for that special purpose from the pre- 

 ceding year. This cannot be called 

 stimulative feeding, for it is all given 

 in a lump. Not very much of such feed- 

 ing is done, however, in the spring, for 



Short Course in Beekeeping Taught by 

 a Lady Beekeeper 



The Short Course in Beekeeping I 

 gave early this summer was given on 

 three successive Saturday afternoons. 



May 27, June 3 and June 10, from 2:00 

 to 4 :30 p.m. The charge for the course 

 was $200 each. All but one of the 

 students were novices, and several 

 started beekeeping soon afterward. 

 Ten enrolled for the course, which 

 consisted of a short lecture each time, 

 followed by practical demonstration 

 and manipulation of the bees. I tried 

 to balance theory and practice. Of 

 course, the whole subject could not be 

 dealt with in detail on account of lack 

 of time, but certain subjects, such as 

 swarming and swarm control, comb- 

 honey production, etc., were treated 

 more comprehensively. .\s field work 

 they were taught to open a hive, handle 

 the frames properly, distinguish the 

 queen, workers, drones, also queen, 

 worker and drone-cells, eggs, pollen, 

 honey, brood sealed and unsealed, and 

 to judge the condition oi a colony and 

 its needs ; frames were put together, 

 wired, and foundation put in, also sec- 

 tion boxes prepared. 



The course was held in the shade of 

 a tall spruce hedge very near the bee- 

 hives; chairs were set three in a row 

 opposite a table covered with equip- 

 ment behind which I stood while giv- 

 ing the preliminary lectures. By care- 

 fully arranging my notes, which I only 

 needed to glance at occasionally, it 

 was astonishing how much ground I 

 could cover. 



The course did not pretend to be 

 advanced, but to contain the simple 

 elements of beekeeping. 



Josephine Morse. 



South Lancaster, Mass. 



Miscellaneous ^ News Items 



The Illinois Meeting.— The meeting 

 of the Illinois beekeepers at Spring- 

 field was one of the best the associa- 

 tion ever had, though the attendance 

 was small; only about 35 being present. 

 The 800 or more members of this asso- 

 ciation should bear in mind that there 

 is much to learn at such meetings. 



One of the most interesting talks was 

 that given by E. R. Root, editor of 

 Gleanings, on " Establishing a Trade 

 Name in Honey." Our readers know 

 that the A. I. Root Company has done 

 a great deal of advertising of honey 

 under the trade name of "Airline 

 Honey." They have spent enormous 

 sums, paying as much as $6000 for a full 

 page ad in the October number of the 

 Ladies' Home Journal. But the in- 

 crease of demand for honey is well 

 marked. Mr. Root insisted on this 

 point, that when you adopt a "trade 

 name" for your honey you give the 

 customer confidence, because he rea- 

 lizes that if you wish to sustain your 

 reputation you must provide satisfac- 

 tory goods. 



Mr. Root is of the opinion that the 



honey supplied under a trade name 

 should be always of the same color and 

 flavor, and for that reason he is in 

 favor of a blend of the differ ;nt grades 

 that can be supplied. This is a little 

 easier for a dealer to do than for a 

 producer who does not wish to buy 

 honey for sale. The beekeeper often 

 has only one grade of honey to sell, 

 and it may not be always of the same 

 grade. But we have learned one thing, 

 that it is possible to advertise honey 

 so as to increase sales materially and 

 still make a profit over the expense of 



advertising. 



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Jersey Cattle are Advertised — We 



received a short time ago from the 

 Jersey Cattle Breeders' Association 

 two excellent photographs of Jersey 

 cattle together with a circular telling 

 of the success of the Jersey special 

 train which left Waterloo, Iowa, for 

 the National Dairy Show at Springfield, 

 Mass. 



No doubt the same material was re- 

 ceived by all papers on the list of this 

 association, and of course it was ex- 



